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In reply to the discussion: Is this blog post intolerant of the transgendered? [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)There are, sadly, feminists who are like that. The attitude is partly a defensive one; there's a certain school of thought in feminism that claims gender is a social construct. So if there are actual transgender people who have an innate sense of gender identity that's at variance with their biological sex? The whole "social construction" theory of gender looks a lot less tenable. Unfortunately for the social constructivists there are numerous studies showing significant evidence of innately "gendered" neurology with transgender people showing similarities in things like certain brain structures and digit length ratios to their self-identified gender.
So in essence people like this are not any different from fundamentalist Christians who insist that homosexuality is a choice (despite the evidence to the contrary).